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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Marie Kondo
Translated by Cathy Hirano
Started in June 2024
In Search of Lost Time Volume V: The Captive & The Fugitive Marcel Proust
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Started in May 2024
Past
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Naomi Klein
Started in April 2024, finished in May 2024
Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti
Started in May 2024, finished in May 2024
Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
Started in April 2024, finished in May 2024
Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene
Started in May 2024, finished in May 2024
Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Started in April 2024, finished in April 2024
Bluets Maggie Nelson
Started in April 2024, finished in April 2024
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Translated by Lydia Davis
Started in March 2024, finished in April 2024
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Robert M. Sapolsky
Started in February 2024, finished in March 2024
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother Rachel Cusk
Started in February 2024, finished in March 2024
On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt
Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024
Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
Translated by Phillip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine Elizabeth David
Started in October 2023, finished in February 2024
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel
Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh
Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans
Edited by Ronald de Leeuw
Started in January 2024, finished in February 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin
Started in December 2023, finished in January 2024
The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories Tove Ditlevsen
Translated by Michael Favala Goldman
Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023
High-Rise J.G. Ballard
Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023
Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu
Translated by Sean Cotter
Started in November 2023, finished in December 2023
The Years Annie Ernaux
Translated by Alison L. Strayer
Started in October 2023, finished in November 2023
Foster Claire Keegan
Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023
The Makioka Sisters Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Started in September 2023, finished in October 2023
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Rachek Cusk
Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023
The Magus John Fowles
Started in September 2023, finished in September 2023
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand’s Best Writers Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Maurice Duggan, Janet Frame, Patricia Grace and Owen Marshall
Edited by Bill Manhire
Started in August 2023, finished in September 2023
In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Started in July 2023, finished in August 2023
The Cursed Bus and other writings Jameson Alex West
Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023
Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov
Translated by Angela Rodel
Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023
Ulysses James Joyce
Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses Harry Blamires
Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
Started in June 2023, finished in June 2023
The Story of Art Without Men Katy Hessel
Started in May 2023, finished in June 2023
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry William H. Gass
Started in May 2023, finished in May 2023
Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason
Started in April 2023, finished in April 2023
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver
Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023
Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec
Translated by David Bellos
Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023
For a Little While Rick Bass
Started in February 2023, finished in March 2023
The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg
Translated by Dick Davis
Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023
6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions Anton Chekhov
Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023
Wild Honey
The Seagull
Ivanov
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya
Stella Maris Cormac MacCarthy
Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023
Stoner John Williams
Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023
Coventry Rachel Cusk
Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023
The Passenger Cormac MacCarthy
Started in January 2023, finished in January 2023
Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders
Started in December 2022, finished in January 2023
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain George Saunders
Started in November 2022, finished in January 2023
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
Started in December 2022, finished in December 2022
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces George Perec
Translated by John Sturrock
Started in November 2022, finished in December 2022
The Other Name: Septology I-II Jon Fosse
Translated by Damion Searls
Started in December 2022, finished in December 2022
On the Beach Nevil Shute
Started in November 2022, finished in December 2022
Kokoro Natsume Sōseki
Translated by Meredith McKinney
Started in November 2022, finished in November 2022
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
Started in October 2022, finished in November 2022
The Collector John Fowles
Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022
Know My Name Chanel Miller
Started in September 2022, finished in October 2022
Summer Ali Smith
Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022
The Tempest William Shakespeare
Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022
Second Place Rachel Cusk
Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer
Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022
Fictions Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Andrew Hurley
Started in August 2022, finished in September 2022
Kudos Rachel Cusk
Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022
Camera Lucida Roland Barthes
Translated by Richard Howard
Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022
The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022
Spring Ali Smith
Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
Started in July 2022, finished in August 2022
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Started in July 2022, finished in July 2022
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee
Started in July 2022, finished in July 2022
In Search of Lost Time Volume III: The Guermantes Way Marcel Proust
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022
Essayism Brian Dillon
Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf
Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022
Chess Story Stefan Zweig
Translated by Joel Rotenberg
Started in June 2022, finished in June 2022
In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
Started in April 2022, finished in May 2022
Should We Stay Or Should We Go Lionel Shriver
Started in April 2022, finished in May 2022
The Bone People Keri Hulme
Started in March 2022, finished in April 2022
The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel
Started in February 2022, finished in April 2022
A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller
Started in March 2022, finished in March 2022
Childhood, Youth, Dependency Tove Ditlevsen
Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman
Started in March 2022, finished in March 2022
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Thomas Browne
Started in February 2022, finished in March 2022
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Started in February 2022, finished in February 2022
Transit Rachel Cusk
Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022
Six Impossible Things John Gribbin
Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022
The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald
Translated by Michael Hulse
Started in December 2021, finished in January 2022
Elephant Raymond Carver
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
Solutions and Other Problems Allie Brosh
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
Gratitude Oliver Sacks
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
This is Pleasure Mary Gaitskill
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
In Search of Lost Time Volume II: Within a Budding Grove Marcel Proust
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Started in November 2021, finished in December 2021
The End of the Affair Graham Greene
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Ralph Parker
Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021
Look Back in Anger John Osborne
Started in November 2021, finished in November 2021
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe
Started in November 2021, finished in November 2021
The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Started in October 2021, finished in October 2021
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham
Started in September 2021, finished in September 2021
Surfacing Kathleen Jamie
Started in August 2021, finished in August 2021
Howards End E. M. Forster
Started in August 2021, finished in August 2021
In Search of Lost Time Volume I: Swann's Way Marcel Proust
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Started in July 2021, finished in July 2021
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Translated by Susan Massotty
Edited by Otto M. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
Started in June 2021, finished in June 2021
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021
Arcadia Tom Stoppard
Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard
Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021
Winter Ali Smith
Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021
What Is Existentialism? Simone De Beauvoir
Translated by Marybeth Timmermann
Started in May 2021
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith
Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021
What if We Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen
Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Started in March 2021
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books Georges Perec
Translated by John Sturrock
Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
Started in March 2021, finished in April 2021
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021
Inadvertent Karl Ove Knausgård
Translated by Ingvild Burkey
Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021
Flights Olga Tokarczuk
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021
The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
Started in February 2021, finished in March 2021
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai Nina Mingya Powles
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
The Peregrine J. A. Baker
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
Autumn Ali Smith
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Translated by Edward Seidensticker
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson
Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021
Northern Lights Philip Pullman
Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021
Outlines Rachel Cusk
Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb
Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021
Dubliners James Joyce
Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021
Imagining Decolonisation Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Rebecca Kiddle, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton and Amanda Thomas
Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Started in November 2020, finished in November 2020
Findings Kathleen Jamie
Started in August 2020, finished in August 2020
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
Started in June 2020, finished in June 2020
The End: My Struggle: Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgård
Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken
Started in March 2020, finished in June 2020
The Lonely City Olivia Laing
Started in February 2020, finished in March 2020
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Charles Dickens
Started in January 2020, finished in January 2020
Sightlines Kathleen Jamie
Started in January 2019, finished in January 2019